explode string conditionally in php

Question

I have a string with spaces as follows.

$name = 'name="shadow" msg="Your message"';

I want to explode the string such as to get name="shadow" and msg="Your message". But the message inside msg is also splitted

On exploding using whitespace i am not getting desired output

$code = explode(' ', $name);

I want to get

$code[0] = 'name="shadow"'
$code[1] = 'msg="Your message"'

But i get this

$code[0] = 'name="shadow"'
$code[1] = 'msg="Your'
$code[3] = 'message"'

Possible duplicate of [Regex for splitting a string using space when not surrounded by single or double quotes](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/366202/regex-for-splitting-a-string-using-space-when-not-surrounded-by-single-or-double) — Royal Wares, Oct 17 '18 at 12:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '18 at 12:02

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Use /(?<=\")\s/ regex in preg_split(). The regex select any space after " character

$name = 'name="shadow" msg="Your message"';
$code = preg_split('/(?<=\")\s/', $name);

Check result in demo

answered Oct 17 '18 at 12:02

Mohammad

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